What's the difference between nail and nailed?

Nail


Definition:

  • (n.) the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
  • (n.) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
  • (n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
  • (n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.
  • (a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
  • (n.) To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
  • (n.) To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
  • (n.) To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.
  • (n.) To spike, as a cannon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
  • (2) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
  • (3) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
  • (4) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
  • (5) Impairments of hearing, of mobility, of cutting toe-nails and of general physical activity were the conditions which were most frequently named.
  • (6) All nine injuries had antibiotic prophylaxis before and after nail removal.
  • (7) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
  • (8) A case is reported of a male infant with congenital palmoplantar keratoderma and nail dystrophy who developed progressive perioral and perineal keratoderma.
  • (9) Although the nail changes and systemic complications are probably due to different causes in drug-induced YNS, a careful search for systemic complications are necessary in patients who develop nail changes.
  • (10) Similar cultures from ten additional patients who underwent nail surgery were also performed.
  • (11) It constitutes an alternative to Ender nailing, screw-plate, and nail-plate.
  • (12) Fragments of nail keratin removed with tweezers from patients suffering from alopecia areata were examined using light microscopy and electron microscopy.
  • (13) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
  • (14) The phenol and alcohol procedure still remains as one of the most effective and gratifying means of treatment for symptomatic ingrown nails.
  • (15) High level of Ge content was detected from the hair and nail by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry.
  • (16) Yellow nail syndrome is characterized by a yellow discolouration of the nails associated with idiopathic lymphoedema and pleuropulmonary manifestations.
  • (17) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
  • (18) Median strain values of reamed only and polyacetal-nailed femora ranged from 67 to 90 percent of the intact side.
  • (19) Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, held two lengthy meetings on Monday in an attempt to nail down terms of a possible compromise.
  • (20) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.

Nailed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Nail

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
  • (2) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
  • (3) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
  • (4) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
  • (5) Impairments of hearing, of mobility, of cutting toe-nails and of general physical activity were the conditions which were most frequently named.
  • (6) All nine injuries had antibiotic prophylaxis before and after nail removal.
  • (7) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
  • (8) A case is reported of a male infant with congenital palmoplantar keratoderma and nail dystrophy who developed progressive perioral and perineal keratoderma.
  • (9) Although the nail changes and systemic complications are probably due to different causes in drug-induced YNS, a careful search for systemic complications are necessary in patients who develop nail changes.
  • (10) Similar cultures from ten additional patients who underwent nail surgery were also performed.
  • (11) It constitutes an alternative to Ender nailing, screw-plate, and nail-plate.
  • (12) Fragments of nail keratin removed with tweezers from patients suffering from alopecia areata were examined using light microscopy and electron microscopy.
  • (13) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
  • (14) The phenol and alcohol procedure still remains as one of the most effective and gratifying means of treatment for symptomatic ingrown nails.
  • (15) High level of Ge content was detected from the hair and nail by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry.
  • (16) Yellow nail syndrome is characterized by a yellow discolouration of the nails associated with idiopathic lymphoedema and pleuropulmonary manifestations.
  • (17) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
  • (18) Median strain values of reamed only and polyacetal-nailed femora ranged from 67 to 90 percent of the intact side.
  • (19) Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, held two lengthy meetings on Monday in an attempt to nail down terms of a possible compromise.
  • (20) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.

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